illegitimi non carborundum

I write software and I like rocks

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“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech

[photosbygerardo]

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[sociolab]

“Underneath the self which acts are little selves which contemplate and which render possible both the action and the active subject. We speak of our ‘self’ only in virtue of these thousands of little witnesses which contemplate within us: it is always a third party who says ‘me’.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition (75)

[sixpenceee]

Catatumbo lightning refers to continuous lightning from a near-daily thunderstorm complex that forms in the Catatumbo River region in northern Venezuela. The only apparent unique characteristic of this phenomenon is that the storms form and persist in the same place night after night. The storms form with enough reliable frequency as many as half of the nights per year that they have historically been used as a maritime navigational aid. (Source)

[ceciestuneflapper]

“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”

— Khalil Gibran (via drinkingteawithelephants)

[just-shower-thoughts]

A bout of depression in the midst of living your life is a lot like sneezing while driving. You can’t stop the car, and you can’t really control the sneeze, so you just cross your fingers and hope you don’t die.

[newyorker]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Through the Years

A groundbreaking litigator for women’s rights before being appointed to the bench, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has worn many aspects in her eighty-five years. On the Justice’s birthday, flip through some photographs of her as a girl in Brooklyn, as a law graduate who left Columbia as co-valedictorian (but with no job offers), as a young mother, and as an advocate whose greatest legacy may be in the cases that she argued before what was then an all-male Supreme Court—and won.  (Photographs from the collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.)

See more photos here. 

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Inch Island, Donegal, Ireland Photo by James Whorriskey (Delbert Jackson) on Flickr

[surrealism-love]

The Castle of the Pyrenees, 1959, Rene Magritte

Size: 145x200 cm Medium: oil, canvas

[plasticblisss]

what ur fave painter says about you:

Van Gogh: art hoe, unappreciated, depressed and lonely

Picasso: mhmm. you’re pretty weird and inventive 

Leanardo Da Vinci: gay genius, ultimate prankster

Matisse: you love anything cultural and appreciate the value and beauty of almost everything

Edvard Munch: you are depressed, nihilistic and very lonely 

Salvador Dali: what is wrong with you? seriously what are you ever talking about

Monet: you have an eye for beauty and wish you could live in a field of flowers

Renoir: you love the women, the children, the bread

Andy Warhol: hello you are pretentious and gay

Rembrant: you are serious, detailed, and classical. 

Keith Haring: you’ve got a hard on for the 80s and you are into activism 

Bouguereau: dude we get it you love the female body and you love mythology

Edward Hopper: america? america. also you are realistic, serious, observant and hard working

Klimt: you are goddamn beautiful and you love goddamn beautiful things

Egon Schiele: you are obsessed with the human body and need to get laid

Magritte: you are an existentialist and want to have tea in the clouds 

Frida Kahlo: fuck imperialism and fuck america and fuck white people. also you’re the coolest motherfucker around

[hillergoodspeed]

(https://www.instagram.com/p/BeY6Tx3FJyt/)

[mademoiselleclipon]

Nicole Atieno  /  Greg Lin Jiajie

[yazdanpour]

Persian Miniatures featured in “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Persian Miniatures ” (1979)

[mabellonghetti]

Fiona Apple on-stage looks from the 90′s

[jazbaaati]

“Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.” - Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

[theclassicsreader]

“Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like), it is also an aesthetic activity, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine– to dream about things that have not happened– is among mankind’s deepest needs.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.”

— Pema Chodron